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Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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567 points elvis70 | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rbanffy ◴[30 Mar 25 15:41 UTC] No.43525012[source]▶
How cute… imagine my childhood home would have a computer with a graphical desktop…

I feel so old now…

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cmrdporcupine ◴[30 Mar 25 16:18 UTC] No.43525268[source]▶
Yeah as far as GUIs go, Win95 isn't in the "nostalgia" category for me, I was already well into adulthood.

I kind of get the appeal, but it's also unnecessarily skeumorphic/fake-3d and there were some UX things that made little sense especially lumping all the window controls all together (including the destructive "close" X) where MacOS smartly separated them.

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fallsoffbikes ◴[30 Mar 25 16:34 UTC] No.43525411[source]▶
Though Apple has forgotten or ignored this in products like the Apple tv where restart and factory reset are right next to each other.
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1. pwython ◴[30 Mar 25 17:47 UTC] No.43526016{3}[source]▶
Especially when you're using that tiny trackpad remote. Overall, Apple TV works, but most of the apps UX suck, and that's not Apple's fault.